Jerome Pathon

It's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....

If only the Bears played the Saints with the same ferocity as they defended Reggie Austin afterward, maybe they don't lose Sunday. You suspect they doth protest too much when the very mention of Austin, who gave up the game-winning 29-yard touchdown pass...

The AFC South is the Lost Division. The Indianapolis Colts, who used to play in Baltimore, are farther north than Cincinnati or Baltimore of the AFC North. The Tennessee Titans used to be the Houston Oilers. The Houston Texans have now filled the void as...

Standing on the sideline with his team down 20-0, New Orleans coach Jim Haslett turned to quarterback Aaron Brooks and said, "Are you scared?" Brooks, a fourth-year player out of Virginia, laughed and replied: "Please. We're going to win this game." Two...

After so many Sundays of living on the edge, the Bears fell off. The pixie dust that magically allowed the Bears to win their last 12 games decided by a touchdown or less failed Sunday. The Bears blew their largest lead in a decade, failing to make...

In an early comparison of off-season personnel changes, the Green Bay Packers lost to the New Orleans Saints by worse than Sunday's 35-20 score. By adding defensive end Joe Johnson from the Saints and middle linebacker Hardy Nickerson from Jacksonville,...

The Bears try to ride their momentum of their first win of the year into the New Orleans Superdome for a game against the equally struggling Saints. If memory serves, the Bears were up 20-0 last season against the Saints in Champaign and ended up...